
SIMtone Online to Deliver the “Anywhere School” to Students, Teachers and Staff, On-Demand
Durham, NC (May 18, 2009) – SIMtone Corporation, a privately held company delivering Universal Computing, today announced the creation of SIMtone Online, a new business unit that will deliver a broad range of innovative and affordable “Cloud PC” services to students, schools and districts nationwide. SIMtone Online will offer a range of very affordable desktop, application and virtual IT Cloud-hosted services that can be purchased, configured, managed, and used anywhere and on any device, with a click of a mouse.
“The first mission of SIMtone Online unit is to make computing inexpensive, simple, and universally available to all students and schools,” explained Tim Mason, Senior Executive Vice President of Operations for SIMtone Corporation, who will head the new business unit. “For the 80,000-plus K-12 schools across the country, SIMtone Online will provide a unique, game changing opportunity to modernize schools and processes, reduce costs and deliver a better, ‘cooler’ education. SIMtone Online will allow students to be at school or with their friends, anytime and anywhere via any device, supporting their mobile lifestyle seamlessly year round, without regard to location or schedule or even crises such as pandemic events.”
SIMtone Corporation’s Universal Cloud Computing Platform is a plug-and-play, secure and massively scalable intelligent-network computing solution that allows operators and service providers to deliver all types of applications and services hosted in any “cloud” to a broad array of existing and new devices, such as a PCs, mobile phones, televisions or zero-touch low cost, plug-and-play terminals. By placing intelligence in the network, SIMtone enables users to access their Cloud PCs, applications and other digital services on-demand and on-the-fly, anywhere they are, securely and at very low cost.
SIMtone Online will launch its service in 3Q 2009. For more information please contact: simtoneonline@simtone.net.
About SIMtone Corporation
The SIMtone Corporation makes Cloud Computing universally simple. The company has developed and commercialized the patented SIMtone Universal Cloud Computing Platform that allows network operators and businesses to host, manage and quickly provision any Cloud-hosted services, and ubiquitously deliver them to zero-touch terminals that can be standalone, low cost hardware appliances, or software terminals usable via browsers or on PCs, thin clients and mobile devices. With the SIMtone, Cloud services such as virtual desktops, DaaS/SaaS, PC Remote Access or Web services, are simple and very inexpensive to host and manage for businesses and providers, and become usable without a computer, on-demand and on-the-fly, simply and safely, by everyone, everywhere. SIMtone Corporation’s North American headquarters are based in Durham, North Carolina and SIMtone International headquarters are based in Vevey, Switzerland. SIMtone is a privately-held company backed by Motorola Ventures and Kodiak Venture Partners. For more information: www.SIMtone.net.